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John Sawoski,
born in Philadelphia, has been a Los Angeles-based pianist, composer, and
musical director since 1985. Besides serving as principal keyboardist for
The Riverside County Philharmonic and
The Capistrano Valley Symphony (which he has also
guest conducted), he has performed with
The Pasadena Pops, The Long Beach Symphony, The San Bernardino Symphony, The
Redlands Symphony, The California Pops,
and
The Orange County Four Seasons Orchestra.
He has played for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Bush, for the
Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards (televised on KCET),
Les Miserables, Avenue Q, Both Barrels: A Salvo of John Forster Songs, The Radio
City Christmas Spectacular, Disney's Beauty and The Beast, The Secret Garden,
Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan, The Mark Taper Forum,
and
Disney's Candlelight Concert. Mr. Sawoski has created hundreds of
orchestrations and arrangements for singers for whom he has accompanied and
music directed, including The Leading Ladies, Gregg Marx, Leslie Zemeckis,
Dennis McNeil, Rodney Gilfry, Yma Sumac, and Marnie Breckenridge. He
has also accompanied Frank Sinatra Jr., Michael Feinstein, Michael Crawford,
Dale Kristien, Rachel York, Lisa Vroman, Sam Harris, Lucie Arnaz, Jim Carrey,
Seth MacFarlane, Mable King, Audra McDonald, Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, The
Fifth Dimension, and many others. He has composed, arranged, and recorded
for numerous film and TV scores including ShowBoy, Winning Ugly: Twenty Years
Later (for the Chicago White Sox), The Woman Chaser, and Day of Atonement;
composed music for three musicals performed at Stanford University (his alma
mater); and has played on camera on Walk Hard,
Rumor Has It, Las Vegas, Will & Grace, Veronica's Closet, LA
Confidential, The Wedding Singer, Frasier, Man on the Moon, and HBO's
Live From Baghdad. Mr. Sawoski recently played piano and did some arranging
on Peter Sheridan’s album Flute Colors, due to be released soon by Move
Records (Australia). His other album credits include playing keyboards for
Robert Drasnin’s album
Voodoo II (Dionysus
Records),
The Adam Yurman Project
(Crown Records, Tokyo), and for Saylor Shin (Korean vocalist and #1 hit
songwriter). Please click the links at the left for performances and news, music clips, and more information about John Sawoski and his distinguished colleagues. And don't forget to bookmark this page and join John's email list. The Latest:
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